Unbroken

Chapter Six:

"Challenges are what make life interesting and overcoming them is what makes life meaningful."

Joshua J. Marine

Missy's Viewpoint:

The sun hit my eyelids in the morning with the bright light coming through my windows. I was soon opening up my eyelids as I was getting myself adjusted to the fact that it was now morning time.

I could hear Maggie in the kitchen doing God knows what, but I wasn't ready to get out of bed just yet. I was soon looking for my phone on my nightstand, kicking myself for not changing my phone number, but I knew eventually that there were going to be people looking for me, wondering what the hell was I thinking. 

But I didn't want to have to answer the questions that were coming. But there was one message from Gibbs and I know Gibbs doesn't ever text people. But I knew someone had to help him text me. I then grabbed my phone and unlocked it to pull the message from him.

It read: "Missy, for the love of God, just tell me where you are so that I can see for myself that you are doing okay. I promise to not tell Aaron or anyone else for that matter. Just want to make sure that you are okay." 

I knew that he was only going to look out for my own well-being, but I wasn't ready to face the reality of what I have done. I couldn't go back to where I was. I had to stay away. I was ordered to stay away and out of sight and to not involve anyone or myself in any investigation that involved Hiram Lodge, no matter how desperate I was to get the scum off of my back for the rest of my life.

I then put my phone back down on my nightstand before I laid back down on my back, my hands were now crossed on top of my stomach. I stared up at the ceiling and I knew that my mind started to fade away from the reality of this world and fade into the dark thoughts of my mind. 

I knew that I needed a break from the real word that has given me so much dismay and trauma and wounds that I may never be able to recover from. But at the end of the day, I still had to carry on as though nothing happened to me for the sake of Jamie. He needed me now more than ever and he was Conner and I's entire world even though no one really truly knew about it. That was something that meant a lot to us both even after we ended our relationship all those years ago. 

He was our son and barely anyone knew that we were together, especially his family as his father would have looked down on the relationship as well as me. His father was a mean brut that never cared about the feelings of others especially his own family as he continued to make shady deals and do things behind the scenes that were in fact illegal. 

Connor never knew, but his father was someone that I had an entire file cabinet full of information as I was working to build a case on to federally prosecute him for a laundry list of charges that would have put him for a long time. 

But that was something that has been put to the side for now as I had to now focus on the main case at hand which was Hiram Lodge. 

I had to now look for him on my own. The minute that I was well enough to go after him is the minute that I would be able to do everything in my power to put him behind bars for what he did before I move on to having bigger fish to fry. 

I was soon snapped out of reality when I realized that there was someone staring at me from the doorway of my bedroom door. I then tilted my head towards the door and there stood Maggie, leaning against the doorframe. 

I then uncrossed my hands and pushed on the bed to rise half my body slowly to sit up before I moved my body towards the side of the bed where my feet could dangle off. I kept my hands steady on the bed, and I looked over at Maggie.